Citations:beemageddon

English citations of beemageddon and Beemageddon

Noun: "(informal) the widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees"

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• 2013, Todd Woody, "Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought", The Beekeepers Quarterly, September 2013, page 41:

  Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.

• 2013, Cheryl K. Spaulding, "Saving Bees from Extinction", The Review Northwest, October 2013, page 12:

  Fears of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) or 'beemageddon', as it has become known in some circles, further escalated this summer when a large die-off of bumblebees, due to the use of neonicotinoids on Linden trees was reported in Oregon.

• 2013, Caroline Williams, "I, bee bot", New Scientist, 16 November 2013, page 43:

  You've probably heard about Beemageddon. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder – thought to be brought on by a pernicious combination of overwork, bad weather, pesticides and infestations of parasitic varroa mites – has been threatening to wipe out honeybees all over the world, and with them many of our food crops.

• 2015, John Roberts, twisdom 2.0: Twitter wisdom of @swamiroberts aka John R. Roberts, unnumbered page:

  Beemageddon is when colony collapse disorder and a bad winter wipe out honeybees and prevent pollination of crops which causes a famine.

• 2016, Jonathan Medwid, "The Not-So-Secret Life of Bees", Suffield (Suffield Academy, Suffield, Connecticut), Spring/Summer 2016, page 36:

  But in what has been called “Beepocalypse” and “Beemageddon,” America's honey bees are dying.

• 2016, Keith Botelho, "Honey, Wax, and the Dead Bee", Early Modern Culture, Volume 11 (2016), page 99:

  Yet bees are certainly not becoming extinct, and reports of an oncoming “beemageddon” or “beepocalypse” have been greatly exaggerated.

• 2017, David MacNeal, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, pages 253-254:

  The harrowing mystery of CCD [colony collapse disorder] carried on for the next two years, spawning documentaries, reports from major news networks, magazine features, and various “Beemageddon” hoopla surrounding the bees' steady decline […]

• 2019, Susan McHugh, Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction, unnumbered page:

  First fueling their figurations as a chaotic menace in horror films like The Birds (1963) and The Swarm (1978), the growing awareness of our greater vulnerability to “beemageddon” or “beepocalypse” informs abrupt shifts in narratives of the social lives of pollinators.